During the period of decline and stillness, the higher influences...

In those days the absence of the Supreme Lord was keenly felt in the palaces and in the halls where matters of government were conducted...

The appointed times began to draw near, and the luminaries of heaven...

 Under his ascendancy, the forces entrusted with the preservation of order began...

At the beginning of the great cycle, the signs that had hitherto remained...

The initial interpretation acquired a much broader dimension.